The soprano Therese Thoma was born in Tutzing, Bavaria. She was
one of sixteen children and she studied with her father Jakob
Thoma and with Franz Lachner at the Court Theatre. She debuted
at the Court Theatre in Karlsruhe in 1865 and in 1866 she first
performed in Munich.

In 1868 she married the tenor
Heinrich Vogl, with whom she had been performing since 1866.
In 1870 she was Sieglinde in Wagner's "Die Walküre" with Heinrich
playing Siegmund. In 1878 she sang Brünnhilde with Heinrich
singing the part of Siegfried. She was also the first to perform
the part of Brünnhilde in the UK. For many years she and her
husband interpreted Tristan and Isolde as well.

After
a quarrel with the Wagner family she and her husband no longer
appeared at the Bayreuth festival. After her voice started to
detoriate she left the stage in 1892 as a final performance
as Isolde in Munich.

In 1870 the Vogls had bought a
house in Tutzing and then a larger property in the neighbourhood.
Her husband died in 1900 and she moved back to Tutzing in 1919,
where she lived for the remainder of her life.